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Nome
Census Area
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Communities [populations in brackets]: |
| Brevig Mission [261] |
Council [0] |
| Diomede City (Inalik) [174] |
Elim [291] |
| Gambell [653] |
Golovin [152] |
| Koyuk [272] |
Nome [3,595] |
| Port Clarence [24] |
St. Michael [341] |
| Savoonga [622] |
Shaktoolik [226] |
| Shishmaref [542] |
Solomon [0] |
| Stebbins [513] |
Teller [265] |
| Unalakleet [803] |
Wales [162] |
| White Mountain [190] |
Remaining [90] |
The Nome Census Area encloses 23,013
square miles of tundra landscape in northwest Alaska. The region
extends west into the Bering Sea to encompass the three islands of St.
Lawrence, King and Little Diomede. Some call the entire Nome Census
Area the Bering Strait region. Seventeen communities house a
population of 9,178 residents (note Council and Solomon report no
residents).
Indigenous people settled this area over 4,000 years before
gold was discovered (in 1900), and their ethnicity is reflected in the area's
demographics. Area Natives can trace their cultural roots to one of three
distinct groups of Inuit (Eskimo) people. While residents on the Seward
Peninsula mostly identify with the Inupiat culture, descendants of the Central
Yupiks tend to live south of Unalakleet. Most Inuit people with Siberian
Yupik ancestry live on St. Lawrence Island and are closely related to the
Chukotska people of the Russian Far East in culture and language.
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